061: How Kids Can Learn to Deal with Big Challenges and Big Emotions with Counselor and Coping Skills Expert Janine Halloran

We will ALL encounter tough situations and hard times in our lives. We will ALL cope with them in some way. But sometimes coping looks like throwing a chair or eat a whole box of cookies.

Licensed Mental Health Counselor Janine Halloran joins us today to talk about the kind of coping that is safe and healthy and HOW we can teach those skills to our kids (while also modeling them ourselves).

In this super practical conversation, you’ll learn:

• What kinds of coping skills most kids prefer
• How and when to intentionally introduce coping skills to kids (and why our gut reaction is usually wrong)
• Kid-friendly deep breathing techniques that don’t come off as corny
• How we can help our kids (and, ahem, ourselves) USE the safe and healthy coping skills in the heated moments instead of the tantrums
• What it means to be the thermostat, not the thermometer…
• How food can help kids build mindfulness, yay!
• The FIRST, easiest, most practical step you can take TODAY to build these skills in your family

Truly, parents, this interview is full of golden moments. Take time to listen to it all, and some parts twice!!!

Resources We Mention for Big Emotions

• My interview with Suzanne Tucker about emotional health
• Janine's free coping skills for kids checklist
• Janine's workbooks: Coping Skills for Kids and Coping Skills for Teens
• Coping Skills for Kids Hub
• If you need help managing your own stress check out my Stress Mastery course
• My top stress relief strategy and  how to be BFFs with your stress
• Find Janine online here
• Follow her on social media: Instagram, Facebook 

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